Word Study
spoken (root: speak)
CIDE DICTIONARY
spoken, a. [p. p. of Speak.].
- Uttered in speech; delivered by word of mouth; oral; as, a spoken narrative; the spoken word. [1913 Webster]
- Characterized by a certain manner or style in speaking; -- often in composition; as, a pleasant-spoken man. [1913 Webster]"Methinks you 're better spoken." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
spoken, past part. of SPEAK.
--adj. (in comb.) speaking in a specified way (smooth-spoken; well-spoken).
--adj. (in comb.) speaking in a specified way (smooth-spoken; well-spoken).
Idiom
spoken for claimed, requisitioned (this seat is spoken for).
THESAURUS
spoken
articulate, articulated, colloquial, common, conversational, enunciated, everyday, familiar, informal, lingual, linguistic, nonstandard, nuncupative, oral, parol, pronounced, said, sonant, sounded, speak, speech, substandard, traditional, uneducated, unliterary, unstudied, unwritten, uttered, verbal, vernacular, viva voce, vocal, vocalized, voiced, voiceful, word-of-mouthROGET THESAURUS
spoken
Speech
N speech, faculty of speech, locution, talk, parlance, verbal intercourse, prolation, oral communication, word of mouth, parole, palaver, prattle, effusion, oration, recitation, delivery, say, speech, lecture, harangue, sermon, tirade, formal speech, peroration, speechifying, soliloquy, allocution, conversation, salutatory : screed: valedictory, oratory, elocution, eloquence, rhetoric, declamation, grandiloquence, multiloquence, burst of eloquence, facundity, flow of words, command of words, command of language, copia verborum, power of speech, gift of the gab, usus loquendi, speaker, spokesman, prolocutor, interlocutor, mouthpiece, Hermes, orator, oratrix, oratress, Demosthenes, Cicero, rhetorician, stump orator, platform orator, speechmaker, patterer, improvisatore, speaking, spoken, oral, lingual, phonetic, not written, unwritten, outspoken, eloquent, elocutionary, oratorical, rhetorical, declamatory, grandiloquent, talkative, Ciceronian, nuncupative, Tullian, orally, by word of mouth, viva voce, from the lips of, quoth he, said he, action is eloquence, pour the full tide of eloquence along, she speaks poignards and every word stabs, speech is but broken light upon the depth of the u, to try thy eloquence now 'tis time.For further exploring for "spoken" in Webster Dictionary Online